Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom

The book tells of a place - R'yleh - a "kingdom described as an unholy marriage of fairy tales and nightmares. He meets a Deep One, Thu Thu Hmong, who initially tries to eat Howard but comes around after the boy saves the creature's life. Howard, who fails to pronounce the Someone with a massive amount of coke thought it was a wonderful idea to adapt elements of the stories created by H.

Lovecraft into an animated children's movie. I might give this a pass if it was at least competently written. Alas, it is not. If you appreciate Lovecraft's work at all, pass this one by and by all means, do not insult the intelligence of your children with this. Incredibly dumb and misguided.

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A young couple move into their dream house, only to find out they are not alone. Guns for Hire Blood Money II Opening Night II Kung Fu Traveler Edit Cast Cast overview: Sarah Lovecraft voice Christopher Plummer West voice Tyler Nicol Winfield Lovecraft voice Alison Wandzura Spot voice Summer O'Reilly Gotha voice Phoenix O'Reilly Twi'i voice Harmony O'Reilly Innes voice Scott McNeil I can appreciate the desire to introduce a new generation to Lovecraft's work, but I sometimes felt that the work went too far in the "cute" direction.

Again, some of these cute episodes stuck out from the rest of the story like spinach caught in a lingerie model's teeth. Still, I recommend the book. Read it once, don't take it too seriously, and don't worry about the story again. But do take in the artwork again. There is some real quality work here. Oh, and, important safety tip: Never trust a child who can properly pronounce "R'yleh".

Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom

Jul 12, Jakob rated it liked it Shelves: Is your child bored? Did his father get locked away in the asylum? Does hanging out with tentacle monsters from the deep sound like fun? Then do we have the thing for you. This Christmas we're offering the Black book, otherwise known as the mad Arab's Kitab al-Azif, that's the Necronomicon to you folks, for half price. We're offering this one time only deal on the Book of the Dead for half off. Your kid will be summoning Great old ones in no time and if that's not enough he'll have Is your child bored?

Your kid will be summoning Great old ones in no time and if that's not enough he'll have the run of the city of the black abyss, R'lyeh. Who knows, maybe he'll even get to meet the one and only Cthulhu! Further to this we're including a one time only invocation. If the favorite pet dies that's no big deal just chant the invocation and skippy'l be running around like never before. Corporation takes no responsibility for furniture ruined by rotten flesh nor for accidental mauling by said pet.

Order now or Yog-Sothoth will get you! Yay for black magic! In this book we meet little Howie who's father's been locked up in the crazy bin. Mom decides it's a good idea to take Howie to visit dad on Christmas eve but unfortunately the warm family gathering is shattered by dad screaming at his son to 'Destroy the Book!

Lo and behold the book that made dad crazy, The Necronomicon! Apparently mom couldn't find How to be a Serial Killer at the bookstore and went for second best. Here is where what seems to be a fun and interesting premise starts to crumble. Howie is transported to a magical wonderland which has been cursed with perpetual winter. Oh yeah, this land is called R'yleh the misspelling of R'lyeh seems to me to be indicative of the rest of the book. From here on we have a bland buddy story, the buddy being an octopus thing with a surly temper but which quickly makes friends with our protagonist, and which then degenerates into a 'you are the chosen one' premise.

The author, Bruce Brown, makes an honest attempt to make fun story for the whole family based on the Cthulhu mythos.

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There are a few problems though with the execution. First is the writing, especially the dialogue. Brown doesn't make it easy for himself by starting with a quote from Poe. Although perhaps adequate for the uninitiated, Lovecraft fans, who undoubtedly will be the ones attracted to read this book, expect high prose from any work that seeks to use Lovecraftian lore to the measure which is done here. Which brings us to the second point, if you're going to base your stuff on the Lovecraft mythos, do it right. The biggest discrepancy is R'lyeh, described by Lovecraft so: There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults.

Nor does the winterland subsequently shown or the characters that inhabit it seem to have much in common with their inspiration or at least they don't seem to stay true to it. The thing is this whole problem could have been avoided if Brown had chosen to honor Lovecraft in a more subtle way.

An example of this is Terry Pratchett's Discworld where in a few of the series books he pays homage to Lovecraft by creating spooky, and funny, creature-monsters while still making them his own creations.

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Neil Gaiman on the other hand shows in A Study in Emerald http: Although it may be unfair to use Pratchett and Gaiman as examples it seems to me that the book could have been much better if the author had just allowed himself more time to work on the nooks and crannies of his story. That being said the book does manage to redeem itself a bit in the end which is why it got three stars instead of two. I should add that book artist is Renzo Podesta and although his penciling can be a bit uneven, though still good, his coloring is excellent.

In his use of color and texture he is reminiscent of Dave McKean cover artist for the Sandman series. Finally for those of you who have no idea what the hell I'm talking about here is one of the best introductions to the world of Cthulhu that I know of: Jan 26, Doug rated it really liked it Shelves: I saw the movie adaptation before I read this, which is probably the second best order, the best order being to read this and skip the movie.

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In both, HPL is a young lad who is scarred one Christmas Eve by seeing his father in an insane asylum. Told of a book he is to destroy, HPL is in a general literary coincidence later given that book as a gift to help him feel better. Upon reading it, he is sucked into Here he meets I saw the movie adaptation before I read this, which is probably the second best order, the best order being to read this and skip the movie. Here he meets a tentacle-faced winged thing he dubs Spot, and then goes on an adventure to get another dark tome to save the Kingdom on behalf of King Abdul.

This graphic novel is a collection of three comics, and has a sort of neat style that is comical but dark with the plot being "Spunky Young Lad's Adventures" complete with some sass from the hero and a general pluckiness that turns to terror on a semi-regular basis. Think of it as wish-fulfillment for a boy who wants a magical dog that helps to protect him whenever he gets in over his head. The story is somewhat slight, but fair for three issues, and the Lovecraftania scattered around is largely mis-used the names are the same but the mask has changed.

If you consider Cthulhu plushies to be an abomination, you will probably despair a bit at this book, for though there is a sense of death and dark deeds underneath, the focus on page is mostly on the light-hearted side of things. The puzzling other side of this is that when a particular Lovecraft word pops up near the end, you can't imagine anyone who doesn't know the mythos to get the significance, making the target audience Still, I'd say it's worth reading for an alt-take, just don't go in expecting any strong canon rather than a mish-mash of concepts and syllables from the source.

Back in general to the movie, if you have seen that and are wondering about this one, know that most every word in this graphic novel shows up in the adaptation, though there are a few scenes such as the "cute" dinner scene with the star spawn family that are new to the animation. I'd also argue that animated-HPL is maybe a tad more annoyingly plucky while comic-HPL is slightly more beleaguered and most things have an added cute layer added.

The strangest change is the creature-in-the-cave is sort of nonsensically turned into a HPL-mythos staple rather than left as a misappropriation of another HPL-staple.

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Oct 05, Timothy Pitkin rated it really liked it Shelves: I do like the alternate take on H. Lovecraft and how he came up with the idea of his creations. I love the idea of Lovecraft actually coming into contact with these creatures and also I love Spot. Also while some may not like the more comedic tones of this story I think it is done pretty well. They also do keep the creepy and eerie atmosphere with the artwork.

As the artwork is not quite right given everyone thing a very Eldritch feel even the humans. I really need to find the rest of the seri I do like the alternate take on H. I really need to find the rest of the series as this book does come with a really cool twist and the story is intriguing enough that I cannot wait to read the rest. Nov 05, Allisonperkel rated it really liked it. Beautiful book, solid retelling read to a second grader who loved it. Oct 14, Larkin rated it liked it. Not enough Lovecraft for a Lovecraft-inspired-comic.

I wavered with this being a two-star not three.